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Compare Periods

Edition: Business + Insights Pro Add-on, Enterprise + Insights Pro Add-on
User-level: Permissions are set at an Organisation level by System Administrators
Who this is for: Principals, directors, finance team


Dashboard Explained

Revenue, recovery, and gross profit trended by financial quarter, by slice. Compare Periods lets you compare the same metrics across different quarters to spot seasonal patterns or genuine trend changes.

New in Insights Pro: This dashboard did not exist in Analytics Plus.

How to use it

Use Compare Periods to check whether a change in Revenue, Recovery %, or Gross Profit % is a genuine trend or a seasonal pattern that recurs each quarter. Compare the same quarter across different financial years to control for seasonality before drawing conclusions from a single period's dip or spike.

Understanding your data

Key Fields

How it's Calculated

Revenue (Invoices)

Invoiced revenue, trended by FY Quarter

Recovery %

Invoiced revenue ÷ charge generated, trended by FY Quarter

Gross Profit

Revenue less standard cost, trended by FY Quarter

Gross Profit %

Gross Profit as a percentage of revenue, trended by FY Quarter


Visuals

  • Revenue by FY Quarter (line)

  • Recovery % by FY Quarter (line)

  • Gross Profit by FY Quarter (line)

  • Gross Profit % by FY Quarter (line)

  • Slice × FY Quarter table (Revenue, Recovery %, Gross Profit, Gross Profit %)

Filters

  • Office: filter by Project Office

  • Discipline: filter by Stage Discipline

  • Project Manager: filter by Project Manager

  • Project Status: filter by Project Status

  • Project Type: filter by Project Type

  • Cost Centre: filter by Stage Cost Centre

  • Stage Manager: filter by Stage Manager

  • Stage Status: filter by Stage Status

  • Stage Fee Type: filter by Stage Fee Type

  • Project: filter to a specific project

  • Project Health: filter by project health (RAG level)

  • Project Director: filter by Project Director

  • Primary Contact Name: filter by primary contact

  • Project Salesperson: filter by salesperson

  • Account Manager: filter by Account Manager

  • Slice By: choose the dimension for the aggregated graph visuals

Toggles

  • Units / Thousands / Millions: switches the value scale used across the page

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